Quote from chaos:
I wonder if you or anyone else who follows this thread and is trading the method can talk about trading it EOD? What are your experiences? Observtions?
You can set most software programs (I used
Quotetracker when I traded part time) to email your mobile phone alerts based on a variety of settings. I used volume alerts, but you could also use trendlines or any other indicator in your charting software.
In addition, you could search for stocks in recent pullbacks from their longer term channel and set a line at which you could be sure the trend had reversed. Set a buy stop (limit) order at this price point, and head off to work. At this point, if the stock does break out, the market rises to bring you into the trade.
Also, some brokers have conditional orders you can place. By example, you could automatically place your trailing stop once your long order is filled (MBTrading has numerous
order types that fit the bill).
Lastly, some people have developed automated programs to monitor the market and place their orders through a brokerage application. I recommend exhaustive testing before implementing this approach.
As you can see numerous methods exist for adapting your trading style to regular working hours. Depending on the time zone of your home city, additional solutions exist as well.
I hope that helped.
- Spydertrader